Improvement in wash-boilers



UNITED STATEs PATENT QFFICE.

MATHEW MCPHERSON BEARD, OF CANTON, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT |N wAsH-BoxLERs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,125, dated February25, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern.-4

Beit known that I, M. McPHERsoN BEARD, of Canton, in the county ofMadison and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wash-Boilers; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, that will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to makeV and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a certain improvement in wash-boilers, inwhich the process of cleansing the clothes or other articles isperformed throughthe agency of steam; and the nature thereof consists ofa vessel, the external surface of the lower side of which is suppliedwith a neck surrounding the `steam-passage, and for adjusting it upon awash-boiler or other receptacle inwhich steam may be generated, Whilethe internal construction consists of a .steam-chamber and a number ofpunctured tubes, substantially as hereinafter more fully specified.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section, andFig. 2 a transverse sectional view of my improved washboiler adjustedupon an ordinarylwash-boiler. A refers to a vessel, made preferably ofan ordinary wash-boiler shape, and supplied upon y its external surface,at the lower side, with a neck, a, surrounding the steam-passage al,

and for the purpose of adjusting it upon a wash-boiler or otherreceptacle, B, in which steam may be generated. This neck, at its upperend, overlaps the upper surface of the bottom of the vessel A, afterhaving passed up through the steam-passage al, and is there soldered orotherwise fastened thereto. A

second bottom, A', is fastened to the inner sides of the vessel A, bysolder or other means,

a short distance above the lower extremity of the said vessel, the spacebetween which and the said extremity constituting the steamchamber a2,through which the steam passes on its way from the boiler to the tubes,to be hereinafter described. Around the sides of the interior of thevessel A, and in the upper chamber of the same, standing in isolatedpositions, are arranged a number of punctured steamtubes, G C, openingthrough the bottom A. Standing equidistant from the sides of the vesselA, or thereabout, are two other steam-tubes, punctured, as shown,and-also opening through the bottom just named. The" I These tubes,

said tubes are lettered C C. which communicate with the steam-chambera2, conduct the steam therefrom, when the vessel AV is placed upon asuitable apparatus, or an ordinary wash-boiler, in which steam may begenerated, to the upper or washing chamber, into which the clothes orother articles to be washed are introduced. rThe clothes or otherarticles thus exposed to the action of the steam will be cleansed of allgrease, dirt, Snc., through the dissolving effects thereof. The saidarti 'les will now be rinsed, when they will be perfectly cleaned. Thevessel A is supplied with the cover I).

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The vessel A, supplied with the neck a, passage or opening a1, chambera2, andpunctured tubes C C', substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of November,1872.

MATHEW MCPHERSON BEARD.

Witnesses:

C. It. DUDLEY, J. J. Jonas.

claim the foregoing I

